The last week has seen some excited activity across the ALIEN fan community with anticipated news of an upcoming trailer for the new ALIEN Romulus movie being expected. Such excitement, driven by leaked (but unverified) information involving the potential plot of the new movie detailing the discovery of the original creature from 1979’s ALIEN floating in space. It is brought to the Romulus station, where aboard the deep space biological research facility, a sample of Engineer pathogen is extracted from the creature. Staff reverse engineering the substance create a new generation of hostile alien forms to serve as the catalyst for ALIEN Romulus’ main narrative.
Further alluding to the trailer’s then imminent release, yesterday ALIEN Romulus director Fede Alvarez released a single word on instagram, “TOMORROW”. Today, the eagerly awaited minute long teaser trailer has become available to view on YouTube.
While little to no indication of prior leaked plot details are present in the trailer, classic ALIEN iconography is prominently present throughout. Art direction reminiscent of the original movie, facehuggers – lots of facehuggers and what appears to be early model pulse rifles appear in this Scott Free/Brandywine production. Video game ALIEN Isolation would also appear to have significant influence on the movie’s content. Unconfirmed leaked plot details are still withheld from public eye in this trailer
Movie release News isn’t normally something I discuss on HIDEOUS PLASTIC as this blog’s focus is primarily concerned with merchandise inspired by these movies. In this regard though, a new movie will prove to be an absolute gold mine of potential new action figures, toys and other goodies coming our way. And that interests me greatly. As such, relevant News gets mentioned here. No doubt this new entry into the ALIEN series will generate more licenced material for the consumer market. I’m all for it.
What can we expect in regards to licenced material inspired by ALIEN Romulus? Who knows? I do hope long time companies such as NECA, Super7 and a dozen other organisations will once again hop onto the band wagon to gleefully serve up a slew of grisly looking space monsters to warm our hearts. I for one am looking forward to seeing fresh Alien types replicated in action figure format. Of very special interest to me would be at least one interpretation of the original Big Chap in the now atrophied state if it appears in this new movie. That’s got to be on the cards.
Oh, my! After forty five years, 20th Century Studios may yet entertain us with the possibility of the original Alien may be coming back? That detail is still yet to be confirmed – or denied. Nonetheless, where’s Kenner Products when you need them?
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